Exclusive: Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer pay for critical satellite services in Ukraine, asks Pentagon to pick up the tab | CNN Politics
Exclusive: Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer pay for critical satellite services in Ukraine, asks Pentagon to pick up the tab | CNN Politics
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US, UK & Poland are funding it ffs… Why is Elon revered when he’s simply a narcissistic capitalist!?
Ukraine experienced issues with Starlink after Elon met Putin then started tweeting ways to end the war that were, unsurprisingly, pro-russia…
Elon Musk just absolutely disgusts me. Basically fawning over him is the same as fawning Trump, self obsessed narcissists with an legion of idiot followers
Free trial ran out
That is how Musk makes money, he oversells his products.
The only time he was not selling anything was when he promoted the Hyperloop for free, as it was just a strategy to stop public transport investment to increase Tesla sales.
It is getting to the point that it is very interesting to listen to Musk just to see what should not happen.
Wow now he is blaming comments from a Ukraine ambassador for why he is doing this [https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1580819437824839681?cxt=HHwWgsCo2ea5mfArAAAA](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1580819437824839681?cxt=HHwWgsCo2ea5mfArAAAA)
But the ambassador only called him out a week ago and Musk sent this letter a month back. This guy lies over a thing which can easily be fact-checked lol
Classic musk. Reminds me of the covid ventilator fiasco, the solar panels after national disasters. many donated (paid for) bits of tech.
I just don’t think billionaires should be allowed to hang and talk to each other.
Do Musk really listened to that Ukrainian ambassador and decided to fuck off, huh?
Wants to be a part-time rich hero but is just another full-time rich scumbag.
Is it a fair price or extortion? Sattelites weren’t launched specially for Ukraine. Once they are there price per traffick volume does not scale linearly
Elon being Elon. No surprise here!
Less than a week after calling for Ukraine to surrender under only Russia’s terms and an ambassador told him to fuck off….
This is the accusing the diver of being a paedophile all over again isn’t it, Musk is throwing his toys out the pram.
After the “Khrushchev’s mistake” tweet it was clear that either Putin or some other russian oligarch had turned Musk to their side.
None of this is suprising.
Is it can or will not find it anymore there is a difference
Leaving aside Musk recent interventions in the field of international diplomacy.
There is nothing wrong with SpaceX wanting to paid to provide a service to Ukraine. Diehl Defence provided Ukraine with an IRIS-T battery because the German government paid them to so and nobody thinks they are the bad guy because of that.
What are fair price for this service would be is difficult to tell since SpaceX as a company is being massively subsidized by the US anyway.